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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

CONFERENCE 2018

TALLINN. ESTONIA. 17 - 21 SEPTEMBER 2018

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Posters Coffee Break Internet Area Speaker Area

BALLROOM 1 BALLROOM 2 BALLROOM 3

ATRIUM ESCALATOR / STAIRS

FOYER LIFTS

WARDROBE TORNIMAE I

TARTU TORNIMAE II

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Monday

12:00 - 12:15 Introduction, Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT

12:15 - 12:45 Atmospheric Research at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL), James Drummond, Dalhousie University

12:45 - 13:00 Q/A Session

Tuesday

09:00 - 09:30 The importance of services in the airport and air navigation service company’s decision-making process, Luojus, Raine CEO, Air Navigation Services Finland

09:30 - 09:45 Q/A Session

Wednesday

09:00 - 09:30 From satellite ocean data to information and applications: NOAA Coast Watch/ OceanWatch/ PolarWatch, Veronica Lance, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

09:30 - 09:45 Q/A Session

Thursday

09:00 - 09:30 Current use of satellite products and high resolution NWP data at MET-Norway in the context of polar lows and winter convection, Noer, Gunnar MET-Norway, Centre for Development of

09:30 - 09:45 Q/A Session

Friday

09:00 - 09:30 The Canadian Ice Service: Operational Arctic Monitoring Programs and Activities, Dean Flett, Canadian Ice Service

09:30 - 09:45 Q/A Session

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Programme-4.indd 4 06/09/2018 11:19 CONFERENCE SESSIONS GUIDE CONFERENCE SESSIONS GUIDE

Current and future meteorological satellite SESSION 1 systems and data access

SESSION 2 Preparing for MTG and EPS-SG

Nowcasting and high-resolution numerical weather SESSION 3 prediction: observational input and the integration challenge

SESSION 4 Observations for the Baltic Basin

SESSION 5 Arctic monitoring and applications

SESSION 6 Atmospheric chemistry monitoring and applications

SESSION 7 Monitoring and the oceans

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Programme-4.indd 5 06/09/2018 11:19 WEEK 17-21 SEPT AT A GLANCE

MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER ROOM TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER ROOM

08:00 Registration Lobby Swissôtel 08:00 Registration Conference floor (6th floor) 09:00 Opening Plenary Ballroom Plenary 09:00 Plenary Session Ballroom Plenary 11:15 Coffee break Foyer 09:45 Coffee break Foyer 12:00 Plenary Session Ballroom Plenary 10:30 Session 2 Ballroom 1 13:00 Lunch break Restaurant Swissôtel Session 1 Ballroom 2 14:15 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 5 Ballroom 3 Session 4 Ballroom 2 Session 7 Tartu Session 5 Ballroom 3 12:30 Lunch break Restaurant Swissôtel Session 2 Tartu 14:00 Session 2 Ballroom 1 15:45 Coffee break Foyer Session 1 Ballroom 2 16:15 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 5 Ballroom 3 Session 4 Ballroom 2 Session 7 Tartu Session 5 Ballroom 3 16:00 Poster Session Tornimäe I and II, Foyer Session 2 Tartu 19:00 Guided City Tour Tallinn 18:30 Icebreaker Tallin Song Festival Grounds

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Programme-4.indd 6 06/09/2018 11:19 WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER ROOM THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER ROOM

08:00 Registration Conference floor (6th floor) 08:00 Registration Conference floor (6th floor) 09:00 Plenary Session Ballroom Plenary 09:00 Plenary Session Ballroom Plenary 09:45 Coffee break Foyer 09:45 Coffee break Foyer 10:30 Session 3 Ballroom 1 10:30 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 7 Tartu Session 7 Tartu 12:30 Lunch break Restaurant Swissôtel 12:30 Lunch break Restaurant Swissôtel 14:00 Session 3 Ballroom 1 14:00 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 7 Tartu Session 7 Tartu 15:30 Coffee break Foyer 16:00 Poster Session 2 Tornimäe I and II, Foyer 16:15 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 7 Tartu 19:30 Conference Dinner The Seaplane Harbour

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER ROOM

08:00 Registration Conference floor (6th floor) 09:00 Plenary Session Ballroom Plenary 10:00 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 7 Tartu 11:30 Coffee break Foyer 12:00 Session 3 Ballroom 1 Session 1 Ballroom 2 Session 6 Ballroom 3 Session 7 Tartu 13:00 Closing Ceremony Ballroom 3

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09:00 OPENING PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Welcome Address 09:00 Alain Ratier, Director-General, EUMETSAT Welcome Address 09:15 Taimar Ala, Director General, Estonian Environment Agency EUMETSAT System Development Programmes - Status and Outlook 09:30 Cristian Bank, Director Programme Preparation & Development, EUMETSAT The Roll Out of NOAA’s Next Generation Meteorological and Environmental Satellites 10:00 Pamela Sullivan, System Program Director, NOAA

11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

12:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 12:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Atmospheric Research at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)

13:00 LUNCH BREAK 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

PREPARING FOR MTG AND EPS-SG 2 TARTU Chair: Isabel Monteiro (Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera)

14:15 Cloud top microphysical properties studied in Himawari AHI data Mária Putsay, OMSZ Hungarian Meteorological Service

14:30 Meteosat Third Generation (MTG): Status and outlook of product development 3 years from launch Jochen Grandell, EUMETSAT

14:45 Preliminary studies of MTG potential in satellite based fog and low cloud detection Jörg Asmus, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

15:00 MTG-FCI Level-1c radiance dataset: consolidation of the format and new test data Mounir Lekouara, EUMETSAT

15:15 Introduction to user readiness process for Geo-Kompsat-2A meteorological products development Kiho Hyun, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration

15:30 KEYNOTE ADDRES Use of GOES-16 Imagery and Products in the NOAA/ Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Michael Bowlan, University of Oklahoma/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) / NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC

15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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09:00 OPENING PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

The Latest Progress and Applications of FengYun Satellites 10:15 Wei Caiying, Deputy Director General of NSMC, China Meteorological Administration Himawari-8/9 satellite Program Status 10:30 Kotaro Bessho, Senior Coordinator for Satellite Systems, Japan Meteorological Agency Update on the status of KMA Next-Generation Satellite 10:45 Seonghoon Cheong, Director of Satellite Development Division, Korea Meteorological Administration 11:00 Conference Announcements

11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

12:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 12:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Atmospheric Research at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)

13:00 LUNCH BREAK 13:00 LUNCH BREAK NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Kathrin Wapler (DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst)

14:15 The current forecast impact of surface-sensitive microwave radiances over land and sea- ice in the ECMWF system Niels Bormann, ECMWF

14:30 Assessment of GOES-16 and Meteosat-11 radiances for assimilation at ECMWF Chris Burrows, ECMWF

14:45 Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Chinese FY-2 Satellite Xiaoqun Cao, National University Of Defense Technology

15:00 Improvement of cloud discrimination schemes for Microwave Satellite data assimilation in the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) NWP system Jieun Cha, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration

15:15 Study of Low Latency LEO Constellation Satellite Sounder Data Impact on Analyses and Forecasts Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

15:30 Assessment of NRT Wind and Wave Data from Sentinel-3 Mission Saleh Abdalla, ECMWF

15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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OBSERVATIONS FOR THE BALTIC BASIN 4 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Stefanie Linow (EUMETSAT)

14:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Qualitative and quantitative remote sensing of phytoplankton blooms in the Baltic Sea Tiit Kutser, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu

14:45 Sensitivity tests of the CMEMS Baltic Sea multi-water algorithm for Sentinel-3 OLCI Hajo Krasemann, Helmholtz-Zentrum

15:00 Radiometric validation of atmospheric correction for Sentinel-3A, MODIS-Aqua and VIIRS in the Baltic Sea Gavin Tilstone, PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory

15:15 Estimation of chlorophyll in the Baltic Sea through the fluorescence signal Lena Kritten, Freie Universität

15:30 Satellite observations supported by eco-hydrodynamic models as an effective tool supporting an assessment of the condition of the Baltic marine ecosystem Miroslaw Darecki, Institute of Oceanology PAS

15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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ARCTIC MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 5 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) Chair: James Drummond (Dalhousie University)

14:15 Day vs Night, A Preliminary Analysis of Radiative Power for Wildfires Characterization George Leblanc, National Research Council of Canada

14:30 NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s (JPSS’s) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program – PGRR Projects Focused on the User Community Operational Use of Two JPSS Satellites With Special Emphasis on the Artic Environmental Challenges Bill Sjoberg, NOAA JPSS Program Office

14:45 Canadian Earth Observation Science and Excellence for Arctic Monitoring and Applications: An Overview Derek Peddle, University of Lethbridge

15:00 Satellite Retrieval of Lake Ice Cover Extent and Thickness: Advances and Opportunities in the Era of Sentinel-3 Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo

15:15 Polar Observing System Experiments in the APPLICATE project using the ECMWF NWP system Heather Lawrence, ECMWF

15:30 JPSS Data for Arctic Applications Arron Layns, NOAA JPSS Program Office

15:45 Arctic and Nordic imager mission requirements for operational and atmospheric science Ari-Matti Harri, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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16:30 16:30

PREPARING FOR MTG AND EPS-SG 2 TARTU Chair: Hervé Roquet (Météo-France)

16:30 Aerosol Composition and Vertical Distribution Retrievals from Simulated EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) Measurements Vijay Natraj, JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory

16:45 Operational inversions of Ice Cloud Imager data Patrick Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology

17:00 Land Contamination Ratio (LCR) in Level 1b Scatterometer Products Stefanie Linow, EUMETSAT

17:15 C-band High and Extreme Force Speeds (CHEFS) Ad Stoffelen,KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

17:30 A Geostationary Imaging UVN Spectrometer for Air Quality Monitoring – Performances, Development status & PFM de-risking activities Gregory Bazalgette Courreges-Lacoste , ESA/ESTEC

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16:30 16:30 NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT)

16:30 Investigation into the impact of all-sky assimilation of 183 GHz microwave radiance data in the JMA global NWP system Hidehiko Murata, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

16:45 Assimilation of IASI observations to enhance the coupling between Numerical Weather Prediction and Chemistry Transport Models Olivier Coopmann, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS

17:00 Assimilation of AMSU-A in the presence of cloud and precipitation Peter Weston, ECMWF

17:15 The impact of ASCAT winds on the ECMWF coupled assimilation system Giovanna De Chiara, ECMWF

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16:30 16:30

OBSERVATIONS FOR THE BALTIC BASIN 4 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Tiit Kutser (Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu)

16:30 Remote sensing applications for monitoring water quality in optically complex inland waters Krista Alikas, Tartu Observatory

16:45 Baltic Sea surface monitoring with use of satellite active microwave instruments Piotr Struzik, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute

17:00 Conceptual models of the storms in the Baltic States in 2013-2017 Judita Liukaityte-Kukiene, Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment / Vilnius university

17:15 Baltic+ 2018: A regional course in the forefront for training forecasters in the satellite data application Andis Rembergs, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre

17:30 Improved sea-ice service in Estonia: enhanced uptake of multi-sensor EO data and Copernicus products Jekaterina Služenikina, Estonian Environment Agency

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ARCTIC MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 5 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) Chair: Derek Peddle (University of Lethbridge)

16:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Mapping Circumpolar Arctic Region at 250-m Spatial Resolution: Extending CCRS Time Series of MODIS Clear-Sky Composites and Snow/Ice Presence Using VIIRS Imagery Alexander Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

17:00 Soil moisture retrieval within an Arctic tundra region: Challenges and progress Aaron Berg, University of Guelph

17:15 Remote Sensing of Environmental Change at Local Scales in the Canadian High Arctic Paul Treitz, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University

17:30 The Role of Satellite-based Information to Inform Change in Arctic Ecosystems at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, Nunavut Johann Wagner, Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS), Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR)

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Raine Luojus, Air Navigation Services Finland, The importance of weather services in the airport and air navigation service company’s decision-making process

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: W Paul Menzel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:30 MTG Programme Status Alexander Schmid, EUMETSAT

10:45 Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) - Space Segment Progress and overall Performance Status Donny M. A. Aminou, ESA/ESTEC

11:00 An operational update on GOES-16 and post-launch status of GOES-17 Pamela Sullivan, NOAA

11:15 An Overview of the Development of Meteorological Products from the New Generation of Korean Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Geo-KOMPSAT-2A Sung-rae Chung, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre

11:30 GOES-R on Watch: What we have seen and learned Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS

11:45 GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Post Launch Test Performance Comparison to GOES-16 Paul Griffith,Harris Corporation

12:00 Current state and prospects of Russian satellite constellation for hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring Vasily Asmus, SRC Planeta

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Raine Luojus, Air Navigation Services Finland, The importance of weather services in the airport and air navigation service company’s decision-making process

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

PREPARING FOR MTG AND EPS-SG 2 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Mark Higgins (EUMETSAT)

10:30 Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) IRS Overall Design and Performance Daniel Lamarre, ESA/ESTEC

10:45 An introduction to the MTG-IRS Level 2 operational baseline Thomas August, EUMETSAT

11:00 Validation and use of MTG IRS proxy data in various weather situations Jana Campa, ARSO Slovenian Environment Agency

11:15 Evaluation of the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) using Ground Based Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) Observations Ronald Thomas, New Mexico Tech

11:30 Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager end-to-end prototype processor Bartolomeo Viticchie, EUMETSAT

11:45 Meteosat Third Generation - Lightning Imager: the development of future MTG-LI operational and user oriented applications Daniele Biron, Aeronautica Militare Italiana - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia Presented by Valentina Rosati, Italian Air Force Met Service - COMet

12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The use of integrated observations and NWP guidance in monitoring Kiira thunderstorm 12 August 2017 Paavo Korpela, Finnish Meteorological Institute

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Raine Luojus, Air Navigation Services Finland, The importance of weather services in the airport and air navigation service company’s decision-making process

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

ARCTIC MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 5 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) Chair: Derek Peddle (University of Lethbridge)

10:30 Case studies and current status of H SAF Metop/AVHRR and MSG/SEVIRI snow extent products Niilo Siljamo, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

10:45 Arctic snow measurements at MHS, MWI and ICI frequencies from the MACSSIMIZE airborne campaign Chawn Harlow,

11:00 Trends for albedo prior to seasonal snow melting season on Northern Hemisphere land areas based on CLARA-A2 SAL for 1982-2015 Kati Anttila, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

11:15 An intercomparison of snow melt onset date estimates from optical and microwave satellite instruments Kerttu Kouki, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

11:30 SAMPO: Satellite Measurements from Polar Orbit over Arctic – Atmospheric composition and applications Seppo Hassinen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

11:45 Remote Sensing of Arctic Atmospheric Composition using Canadian Assets Kaley A. Walker, University Of Toronto

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Raine Luojus, Air Navigation Services Finland, The importance of weather services in the airport and air navigation service company’s decision-making process

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO, Australia)

10:30 The Joint CEOS/CGMS WGClimate ECV Inventory: A Resource for International Coordination, Climate Services, and Science Jörg Schulz, EUMETSAT

10:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS MODIS to VIIRS reflective solar band inter-calibration without the use of SNOs David Doelling, NASA Langley Research Center

11:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Re-calibrated Infrared and Water Vapor channel’s measurements from JMA and EUMETSAT geostationary meteorological satellites Tasuku Tabata, MSC/ JMA Meteorological Satellite Center/ Japan Meteorological Agency

11:45 The FIDUCEO Fundamental Climate Data Record from more than 35 years of Meteosat First Generation Visible Band Observations Frank Rüthrich, EUMETSAT

12:00 Investigating the inter instrument bias of currently operational microwave humidity sounder Timo Hanschmann, EUMETSAT / Hamtec Consulting Ltd

12:15 SI-Traceable Calibration of Satellite Microwave Radiometers Edward Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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14:00 14:00

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Joachim Saalmueller (EUMETSAT)

14:00 ADAGUC Open source visualization utilized in the KNMI GeoWeb project Maarten Plieger, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

14:15 Data services innovation at EUMETSAT: Part 1- Format Conversion Toolbox Daniel Lee, EUMETSAT

14:30 CSPP Geo Software for Processing Direct Broadcast Data from GOES-16 and Himawari Jessica Braun, University of Wisconsin-Madison

14:45 Data services innovation at EUMETSAT: Part 2- Web Data Services Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT

15:00 Visualizing the New Generation of Satellite Data and Products with McIDAS William Straka Iii, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

15:15 Pytroll/Trollcast: Exchanging large polar weather satellite data in real-time over the internet Martin Raspaud, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

15:30 Pytroll/Satpy: Distributed loading and processing of weather satellite data in Python Martin Raspaud, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

15:45 Data services innovation at EUMETSAT: Part 3-Hosted Processing Mike Grant, EUMETSAT

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00

PREPARING FOR MTG AND EPS-SG 2 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Hervé Roquet (Météo-France)

14:00 Monitoring and assimilation of Reconstructed Radiances from EUMETSAT Principal Component compressed IASI data in the DWD EnVar Silke May, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

14:15 A first channel selection for the assimilation of IASI-NG in NWP models Francesca Vittorioso, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

14:30 Investigating the assimilation of MSG/SEVIRI water vapour radiance data to extract wind information with an ensemble kalman filter Marc Pondrom, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00

ARCTIC MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 5 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) Chair: Derek Peddle (University of Lethbridge)

14:00 Developments in the OSI SAF sea ice concentration product John Lavelle, DMI Danish Meteorological Institute

14:15 Seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice surface melting processes using satellite radar data Randy Scharien , University of Victoria

14:30 Arctic Sea Ice Leads from MODIS/VIIRS Observations Steven Ackerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

14:45 On the potential of thermal infrared satellite imagery for high-resolution sea-ice monitoring during wintertime Sascha Willmes, University of Trier, Dpt. Environmental Meteorology

15:00 Canadian contributions to remote sensing of ocean colour in the Arctic Ocean Emmanuel Devred, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

15:15 Seamless Monitoring of the Sea Ice Essential Climate Variable : contribution by the EUMETSAT OSI SAF Thomas Lavergne, met.no Norwegian Meteorological Institute

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Joerg Schulz (EUMETSAT)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS A novel framework to harmonise satellite data series for climate applications Ralf Giering, FastOpt

14:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Advantages of Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) Measurements for NWP and Climate Trending that require Multi-sensor Observing Networks Henry Revercomb, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison

15:00 How does ECMWF latest reanalysis ERA-5 compare with ERA-Interim when used to force the ISBA Land Surface Model? Clément Albergel, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

15:15 Long-term archives of land surface albedo products through the EUMETSAT/LSA-SAF and ECMWF/C3S projects: status and project development plan Dominique Carrer, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

15:30 An all-weather LST product based on SEVIRI Infrared observations and an evapotranspiration model Joao Paulo Martins, Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera / Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Veronica Lance, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, From satellite ocean data to information and applications: NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Matthew Seybold (NOAA/NESDIS)

10:30 MetOp Second Generation - System and Payload Overview Marc Loiselet, ESA/ESTEC

10:45 Joint Polar Satellite System: the United States New Generation Civilian Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System Greg Mandt, NOAA JPSS Program Office Presented by Barbara Grofic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11:00 NOAA-20 VIIRS Post-Launch Performance and Comparisons with S-NPP VIIRS Slawomir Blonski, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR / ERT

11:15 JAXA Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM): Status of GCOM-Climate (GCOM-C) Misako Kachi, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

11:30 JAXA Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM): Status of GCOM-Water (GCOM-W) Misako Kachi, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

11:45 ESA's Aeolus Doppler Wind Lidar Mission, getting ready for launch Anne Grete Straume, ESA/ESTEC

12:00 Introduction to China FY-3 series follow-up satellite plans Songyan Gu, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

12:15 The TROPICS mission’s sounding capabilities Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Veronica Lance, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, From satellite ocean data to information and applications: NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT)

10:30 Assessment of new ASCAT wind products for assimilation in global NWP Giovanna De Chiara, ECMWF

10:45 Assimilation of ATMS at ECMWF: NOAA-20 data quality assessment and correlated errors Peter Weston, ECMWF

11:00 Mesoscale wind data assimilation - Summary of the NWP SAF workshop Ad Stoffelen,KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

11:15 The impact of surface-sensitive clear sky radiances (CSR) assimilation in JMA global NWP system Izumi Okabe, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

11:30 Assimilation of land surface temperature in the coupled land atmosphere system Christine Sgoff,Goethe-Universität

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Veronica Lance, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, From satellite ocean data to information and applications: NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Johanna Tamminen (FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute) Chair: Claus Zehner (ESA)

10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS OMI and TROPOMI: towards high resolution Air Quality and Emission monitoring Pieternel Levelt, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / Technical University Delft

11:00 Continuing satellite monitoring of pollution NO2 and SO2 trace gases from Aura/OMI with the Operational SNPP/and NOAA-20/OMPS Instruments Nickolay Krotkov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11:15 New products and product evolution together with interesting product examples: AC SAF Seppo Hassinen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

11:30 TROPOMI Geophysical Products after the Commissioning Phase of Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor Diego Loyola, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

11:45 Sentinel-5P TROPOMI high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations Henk Eskes, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

12:00 Use of S5P data in the CAMS/ECMWF data assimilation system Antje Inness, ECMWF

12:15 A new tropospheric NO2 column data record for OMI, GOME-2, SCIAMACHY and GOME from the European Quality Assurance For Essential Climate Variables (QA4ECV) project Klaas Folkert Boersma, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / Wageningen University

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Veronica Lance, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, From satellite ocean data to information and applications: NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Michael Foster (SSEC/CIMSS, Universtity of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Creating the Long-Record IMERG Dataset George Huffman,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Impact of the V05/V06 GPM Reprocessing Cycle on the GPM Gridded Text Product Erich Stocker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Reprocessing of Atmospheric Motion Vector for JRA-3Q at JMA/MSC Kenichi Nonaka, MSC/ JMA Meteorological Satellite Center/ Japan Meteorological Agency

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14:00 14:00

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Jaime Daniels (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)

14:00 Ready to Serve from an Operational Assignment in the GOES Constellation: GOES-17 Science Data and Services Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS

14:15 Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP): Direct Broadcast Software in Support of Environmental Decision Makers Kathleen Strabala, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

14:30 CeaseFire: a website to assist fire managers in Portugal based on information derived from LSA SAF products Carlos DaCamara, Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa

14:45 VIIRS Active Fire Products from the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 Satellites Ivan Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

15:00 Comprehensive Evaluation of NOAA-20 ATMS On-orbit Performance by Combined Using Ground Test and Space Maneuver Datasets Hu Yang, University of Maryland

15:15 GOES-R Series ABI Mesoscale Domain Sector Request Process for International Users Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS

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14:00 14:00 NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Thomas August (EUMETSAT)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Coupling NearCasts and Convective Initiation Products to Improve Convective Forecasts using GOES-16 Ralph Petersen, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

14:30 Assimilating SEVIRI observations in the visible spectral range in a convective-scale LETKF Leonhard Scheck, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

14:45 Satellite Convection Product Guidance: from pre-convection environment to deep convection Vesa Nietosvaara, EUMETSAT

15:00 Satellite based technique for nowcasting of thunderstorm over south asian region Suman Goyal, India Meteorological Department

15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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14:00 14:00

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Antje Inness (ECMWF) Chair: Nickolay Krotkov (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS IASI satellite observation of pollutants: best of 2017-2018 Pierre Coheur, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique

14:30 TROPOMI CO retrieval from the shortwave infrared: First results and assessment of the data quality Tobias Borsdorff,SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

14:45 10 years of IASI CO retrievals Maya George, LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Universités, UVSQ, CNRS

15:00 IDEA-I: A Globally Configurable Air Quality Forecast Software Package applied to NUCAPS retrievals of Carbon Monoxide from Suomi-NPP James Davies, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison

15:15 Optimal Estimation of Ammonia from IASI Lucy Ventress, University Of Oxford

15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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14:00 14:00

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Joerg Schulz (EUMETSAT)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Building a set of ocean observations for the initialisation and validation of the CSIRO Climate Analysis Forecast Ensemble (CAFE) system Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

14:30 Evaluation of the EPS/METOP and MSG/SEVIRI derived LSA-SAF surface albedo products from an intercomparison against MODIS in the recent years Gabriel Lellouch, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

14:45 Global Warming and Land Cover Changes during 1980-2017 Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

15:00 An Overview of EUMETSAT's Radio Occultation Activities Axel von Engeln, EUMETSAT

15:15 Climate data records generated from reprocessing of radio occultation data Kent Lauritsen, DMI Danish Meteorological Institute

15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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16:15 16:15

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Bertrand Theodore (EUMETSAT)

16:15 The status of the CLAVR-x processing system after the launch of GOES-16 and NOAA-20 (JPSS-1) satellites Andi Walther, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

16:30 Characterization of cloud types with respect to the geometrical and radiative cloud top height based on sensor-synergy Anja Hünerbein, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

16:45 Adaptation of MODIS cloud products to existing and future sensors by means of spectral resampling Jan Musial, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography

17:00 Validation of TROPOMI and GOME2 HCHO VCDs over Southern using ground based MAX-DOAS measurements Ka Lok Chan, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

17:15 Inter-calibration between two sensors on same platform of FENGYUN satellite Hanlie Xu, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

17:30 Long term analysis of COMS visible channel calibration using vicarious method and Moon observation Eunkyu Kim, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre/ Korea Meteorological Association

17:45 Impact of Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Corrections on Meteosat/ SEVIRI Level-2 Products Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT

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16:15 16:15 NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT)

16:15 Strategies for probabilistic nowcasting of thunderstorm by exploiting satellite, radar, and lightning observations with Artificial Neural Networks Ulrich Hamann, MeteoSwiss

16:30 On the sensitivity of nowcasting algorithms for convective initiation in satellite images to automatic tracking techniques Stephan Lenk, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

16:45 Monitoring convective clouds using FY-4A data Jian Liu, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

17:00 A Statistical Model to Nowcast Severe Storms using High-Resolution Radar-GOES Satellite-Lightning-NWP-based Observations John Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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16:15 16:15

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Iolanda Ialongo (FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute) Chair: Piet Stammes (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)

16:15 The production of 20+ year height-resolved ozone data from GOME-class instruments for ESA-CCI and C3S Richard Siddans, RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / NCEO National Centre for Earth Observation

16:30 Quality assessment and ground-based validation of Metop-A and Metop-B nadir ozone profile products Arno Keppens, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

16:45 Atmospheric Ozone: data synergy and synergy of tools Ugo Cortesi, CNR/IFAC Istituto di Fisica Applicata 'Nello Carrara'

17:00 Upper stratospheric O3 recovery as observed by IASI over 10 years of measurements Catherine Wespes, Université Libre de Bruxelles

17:15 Modelling trends in stratospheric ozone using the dynamic linear model approach Marko Laine, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

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16:15 16:15

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Thomas Meissner (Remote Sensing Systems)

16:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The challenge of wind comparisons in hurricane conditions Marcos Portabella, Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC)

16:45 ASCAT winds used for offshore wind energy applications Ioanna Karagali, DTU Technical University of Denmark

17:00 ESA ERS Scatterometer dataset: first steps in metrological approach to 30 years of data Daniele Casella, Serco SpA

17:15 Characteristics of the Altimeter, Scatterometer and Model Surface Wind Speeds Errors Saleh Abdalla, ECMWF

17:30 Wind validation for Scatsat Jeroen Verspeek, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Gunnar Noer, MET-Norway, Centre for Development of Weather Forecasting Current use of satellite products and high resolution NWP data at MET-Norway in the context of polar lows and winter convection

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT)

10:30 Sentinel-5 precursor mission status and first results Claus Zehner, ESA

10:45 JPSS Data Products Jeffrey Weinrich,NOAA/JPSS/STC

11:00 Performance Assessments of NOAA-20 (JPSS-1) VIIRS Solar and Lunar Calibration Xiaoxiong Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11:15 NOAA-20/Suomi-NPP Pairing Offers a Practical “Encore” for the VIIRS Day/Night Band Steven Miller, Colorado State University

11:30 Radiometric Calibration of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) on NOAA-20 David Tobin, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:45 Radiometric Assessment of CrIS Stratosphere Sounding Channel Radiances using GPS RO Data Erin Lynch, University of Maryland

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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Programme-4.indd 36 06/09/2018 11:19 THURSDAY 20 SEPT MORNING

09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Gunnar Noer, MET-Norway, Centre for Development of Weather Forecasting Current use of satellite products and high resolution NWP data at MET-Norway in the context of polar lows and winter convection

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Kathrin Wapler (DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst)

10:30 Impact of Assimilation of Scatterometer Wind Observations in GPAPES Yan Liu, Numerical Weather Prediction Center, China Meteorological Administration

10:45 AMV from Geostationary Satellite Dual Star Stereo view-system and bias analysis Feng Lu, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

11:00 Assessing the impact of ASCAT winds assimilation in HARMONIE-AROME for a domain over south-western Europe Isabel Monteiro, IPMA - Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere

11:15 Assessing the Complimentary Impact of Atmospheric Wind Observations from Satellites and Aircraft at Global and Regional Scales Ralph Petersen, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

11:30 High wind observations from satellites Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems

11:45 Observed flow dependent errors in ECMWF, ASCAT, and ScatSat winds and their effect on meteorological analyses Jur Vogelzang, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

12:00 Efficient methods for generating synthetic satellite images in the visible spectrum Leonhard Scheck, HErZ / LMU

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Gunnar Noer, MET-Norway, Centre for Development of Weather Forecasting Current use of satellite products and high resolution NWP data at MET-Norway in the context of polar lows and winter convection

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Seppo Hassinen (FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute) Chair: Rasmus Lindstrot (EUMETSAT)

10:30 High-resolution trends in tropospheric NO2 columns over Europe derived from the 2004- 2017 OMI and GOME-2A QA4ECV and DOMINO v2 data records Marina Zara, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

10:45 The use of atmospheric composition data from EUMETSAT in the CAMS data assimilation system Melanie Ades, ECMWF

11:00 Operational trace gas column observations from GOME-2 on MetOp Pieter Valks, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

11:15 Satellite based Monitoring Initiative for Regional Air quality (SAMIRA) Kerstin Stebel, NILU - Norwegian Institue for Air Research

11:30 Validation of GOME-2 AC SAF GDP HCHO columns using ground-based MAXDOAS and FTIR column measurements Gaia Pinardi, IASB-BIRA Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

11:45 Increasing the societal impact of satellite-based observations for air quality monitoring: applications for the public and private sector Iolanda Ialongo, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

12:00 Quality assessment of QA4ECV Climate Data Records of tropospheric NO2, HCHO and CO OMI, GOME-2 and IASI, and ground-based validation with NDACC DOAS and FTIR observations Steven Compernolle, BIRA-IASB Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

12:15 Global distribution lowermost tropospheric ozone pollution from multispectral synergism of IASI infrared and GOME-2 ultraviolet satellite measurements Juan Cuesta, LISA-CNRS Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Amosphériques

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Gunnar Noer, MET-Norway, Centre for Development of Weather Forecasting Current use of satellite products and high resolution NWP data at MET-Norway in the context of polar lows and winter convection

09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 09:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO, Australia)

10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Sea Surface Salinity from the Aquarius and SMAP L-band Sensors Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems

11:00 Uncertainty Characterization of HOAPS Latent Heat Flux Related Parameters Karsten Fennig, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

11:15 Sentinel-3 SLSTR CAL/VAL activities for sea surface temperature measurements Igor Tomazic, EUMETSAT

11:45 Assessment of the impact of SLSTR L2P Sea Surface Temperature data on OSTIA Chongyuan Mao, Met Office

12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:30 LUNCH BREAK

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14:00 14:00

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Ivan Csiszar (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)

14:00 Development of the Precipitation Retrieval and Profiling Scheme (PRPS) for Passive Microwave Sounding Instruments Christopher Kidd, University of Maryland

14:15 Global scale rainfall product from ASCAT soil moisture product (through SM2RAIN) and its applications in hydrology Luca Brocca, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

14:30 Derived Land Surface Temperature (DLST) product for MSG/SEVIRI Frank-Michael Göttsche, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

14:45 A multi-sensor approach to retrieve emissivity angular dependence from satellite observations Sofia L. Ermida,IPMA Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere / IDL Instituto Dom Luiz, Universty of Lisbon

15:00 New Generation of Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellites to Improve Global Drought Watch Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

15:15 Early forecasting corn yield using ground truth data and vegetation health indices in Bulgaria Zornitsa Popova, Institute of Soil Science Agrotechnology and Plant Protection "N. Poushkarov", Sofia, Bulgaria

15:30 H-SAF root zone soil wetness products based on assimilating scatterometer soil moisture retrievals into a land surface model David Fairbairn, ECMWF

15:45 Generating LEO Sounder Products at GEO Imager Spatial and Temporal Resolution W Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00 NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT)

14:00 Investigation of techniques to quantify differences between imagery generated from geostationary satellites and NWP models Thomas Blackmore, Met Office

14:15 Increasing the density of assimilated satellite radiances within high resolution 4D-EnVar Joël Bédard, Environment Canada

14:30 Possible Usage of IASI L2 data in Nowcasting Zsofia Kocsis,OMSZ Hungarian Meteorological Service

14:45 Potential benefits of assimilating MetOp combined retrieval L2 products in AROME- France Bruna Barbosa Silveira, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

15:00 Fully automated quantitative estimation of cloud top height using stereoscopic Meteosat satellite observations Ján Kaňák, SHMU Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

15:15 Improved satellite tooling for the Caribean using GeoWeb Paul Devalk, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

15:30 The utility of NebulaSystem® for meteorological monitoring of environmental elements phenomenon and activities Sylwia Nasiłowska, Institute of Aviation of Poland

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Pierre Coheur (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Chair: Kaley Walker (University of Toronto)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Space based contributions towards the monitoring of CO2 and CH4 Heinrich Bovensmann, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP)

14:30 IASI methane retrievals from the 7.9 and 3.7 micron spectral regions Richard Siddans, RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

14:45 First methane retrievals from TROPOMI short-wave infrared measurements Landgraf Jochen, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

15:00 Vertical profile of aerosol and its effect on CO2 retrieval from the hyperspectral measurement of satellite: Measurement and analysis Minzheng Duan, Institute of atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

15:15 Study on the first ground-based FTS XCO2 measurements at Beijing, China and comparisons with satellite XCO2 data Xingying Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center,China Meteorological Administration

15:30 COCCON - a framework for operating the EM27/SUN spectrometer Darko Dubravica, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

15:45 Satellite observations of CO2 emission areas Johanna Tamminen, Finnish Meteorological Institute

16:00 Towards a new scientific data product of H2O/HDO vertical columns from TROPOMI 2.3 μm reflectance measurements Andreas Schneider, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

16:15 Extension of the AIRWAVE Total Column of Water Vapor retrieval from ATSR measurements over land Bianca Maria Dinelli, CNR/ISAC Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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14:00 14:00

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: Joerg Schulz (EUMETSAT)

14:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Providing Information and Support to Users for Ocean and Coastal Research, Applications and Services: The NOAA CoastWatch Program and Multi-Sensor Ocean Remote Sensing Data Paul DiGiacomo, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

14:30 Sentinel-3 Topography Component: Mission Performance over Ocean Mathias Raynal, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

14:45 Value added Sentinel-3A sea level products by the Marine Altimetry L2P-L3 Service available since June 2017 Marine Lievin, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

15:00 Ocean colour from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission: product status and ongoing evolutions Ewa Kwiatkowska, EUMETSAT

15:15 Matchup Data Base for Sentinel-3 OLCI Ocean Colour products validation Ilaria Cazzaniga, EUMETSAT

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II 16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION II COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Dean Flett, Canadian Ice Service, The Canadian Ice Service: Operational Arctic Monitoring Programs and Activities

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Sean Burns (EUMETSAT)

10:00 MTG-IRS Level 1 operational status Bertrand Theodore, EUMETSAT

10:15 Fast Radiative Transfer Model and Retrieval Algorithm for Current and Future Hyperspectral Satellite Remote Sensors Xu Liu, NASA Langley Research Center

10:30 An operational, all-weather, multi-platform, hyper spectral retrieval algorithm: the NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS). The success story of Aqua/AIRS, MetOp/IASI, NPP/CrIS and first glance results from NOAA-20 (JPSS-1) Antonia Gambacorta, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR / Science and Technology Corporation

10:45 GOES-16 L2 Algorithm Operational Status Elisabeth Kline, NOAA, NESDIS

11:00 Utilizing the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for Lightning Safety Geoffrey Stano,ENSCO, Inc. / NASA SPoRT

11:15 Introducing Atmospheric Motion Vectors Derived from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Jaime Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Dean Flett, Canadian Ice Service, The Canadian Ice Service: Operational Arctic Monitoring Programs and Activities

NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Vincent Guidard (CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS)

10:00 Nowcasting SAF products and future developments Xavier Calbet, AEMET Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia

10:15 A Climatology of the Combined Aster MODIS Emissivity for Land (CAMEL) for use in NWP Data Assimilation Robert Knuteson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30 Impact of MT-SAPHIR satellite data sets on medium range forecasts Nuri On, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration

10:45 Comparison of Sentinel-3 OLCI total column water with Met Office NWP model Roger Saunders, Met Office

11:00 Improved retrieval of cloud parameters for utilization of IASI cloud-affected radiances in 1D-Var data assimilation Ahreum Lee, Seoul National University

11:15 Use of NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Cloud Products to Support Radiance Assimilation Andrew Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Dean Flett, Canadian Ice Service, The Canadian Ice Service: Operational Arctic Monitoring Programs and Activities

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Rasmus Lindstrot (EUMETSAT) Chair: Diego Loyola (DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)

10:00 Aerosol and cloud properties observed with TROPOMI Piet Stammes, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

10:15 Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Using Bayesian Aerosol Retrieval (BAR) Algorithm Antti Lipponen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

10:30 A New Era for Aerosol Products from Geostationary Satellites Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

10:45 Operational cloud products from TROPOMI on Sentinel-5 Precursor and prospects for Sentinel-4 on MTG-S Ronny Lutz, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

11:00 Tracking aerosol events over the last decade based on MSG/SEVIRI satellite observations Dominique Carrer, CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS

11:15 A GEO-LEO (Geostationary and Low-Earth-Orbiting) Synergistic Approach to Aerosol Mapping: Towards a More Detailed and Higher Accuracy Aerosol Spatial and Temporal Distributions Yi Qin, CSIRO

11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

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09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY 09:00 PLENARY BALLROOM PLENARY

Dean Flett, Canadian Ice Service, The Canadian Ice Service: Operational Arctic Monitoring Programs and Activities

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: David Doelling (NASA Langley Research Center)

10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS PATMOS-x version 6.0: a suite of cloud products from 37 years of global AVHRR+HIRS data Michael Foster, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS On the spatiotemporal variability of solar radiation and its consequences for the accuracy of satellite-based products of solar surface irradiance Hartwig Deneke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

11:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Improving the SEVIRI-based liquid cloud optical properties retrieval through adjustments in droplet size distributions Nikos Benas, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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12:00 12:00

CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS 1 BALLROOM 2 Chair: Sean Burns (EUMETSAT)

12:00 GOES-16 AMV data evaluation and algorithm assessment Katie Lean, ECMWF

12:15 Current Status of Atmospheric Motion Vectors of Himawari-8 and -9 Kenichi Nonaka, MSC/ JMA Meteorological Satellite Center/ Japan Meteorological Agency

12:30 What if the ESA Aeolus mission is a success? Ad Stoffelen,KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

12:45 Observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) for future space-based Doppler wind lidar of Japan Kozo Okamoto, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS 6 BALLROOM 3 Chair: Rasmus Lindstrot (EUMETSAT) Chair: Diego Loyola (DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)

12:00 Retrieval of cloud properties from satellite multi-angle spectropolarimetry using the neural network approach Antonio Di Noia, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

12:15 SO2 plume height retrieval: Applying inverse learning machines to S5p / TROPOMI SO2 data Pascal Hedelt, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

12:30 Proximal and distal monitoring of volcanic eruptions from an integrated approach based on MSG-SEVIRI observations Stefano Corradini, Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia

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12:00 12:00 NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE 3 BALLROOM 1 Chair: Vincent Guidard (CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS)

12:00 A unified theory of the physics behind satellite observed storm top visible and infrared features Pao Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:15 Enhanced cumulus case study- Snowfall in Estonia 8th-9th May 2017 Tuuli Jurtom, Other (if not listed below)es

12:30 Improvement of MAPLE Algorithm for Effective Motion Prediction by Cloud Type in Satellite Images Seon-Young Jeong, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre/ Korea Meteorological Association

MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS 7 TARTU Chair: David Doelling (NASA Langley Research Center)

12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Contribution of black carbon induced climate change on mountain snow-melt over Eastern Africa region Daniel Mbithi, University of Nairobi, Department of Meteorology

12:30 Validation of Sentinel-3 SLSTR sea surface temperatures against ARGO using a diurnal warming model Andrew Harris, University of Maryland / NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

13:00-13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY IN BALLROOM 3 13:00-13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY IN BALLROOM 3

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Programme-4.indd 49 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION I MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) 1 CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS The Four "V"s of Future Meteorological Satellite Data: Management and Stewardship 1.1 Implications of Future Space Architectures Philip Ardanuy, INNOVIM

Status of the global and regional operational IASI L2 products and services at EUMETSAT 1.2 Thomas August, EUMETSAT

Impact of the VIIRS Day-Night-Band in the NOAA Enterprise Cloud Detection Scheme 1.3 Denis Botambekov, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

Status of the Active Fire Products from NOAA’s GOES-R Series 1.4 Ivan Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

NWC SAF GEO/PPS cloud products processing chain with ECMWF model data at various 1.5 horizontal resolutions Andrei Diamandi, National Meteorological Administration of

Study of Sahelian convection from Satellite data from 1996 to 2006 1.6 Bouya Diop, Gaston Berger University Of Saint Louis Senegal

An Update on the Joint Polar Satellite System 1.7 Barbara Grofic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Impact of the spatial and temporal improvements of the Imager on GOES-16 over GOES- 1.8 13 on the CLAVR-x cloud products provided for the NREL Solar Radiation Database Andrew Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Are EARS-IASI L2 products useful for nowcasting? 1.9 Katja Hungershoefer, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

On-Orbit Verification of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Navigation on GOES-16 1.10 Peter Isaacson, The Aerospace Corporation

Development of Geo-KOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) cloud analysis algorithm 1.11 Hye-Sil Kim, Ewha Womans University

Modeling Crop and Pasture Production using Satellite-based Vegetation Health Method 1.12 Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Ground System Extensibility Considerations 1.13 Shawn Miller, Raytheon

Geostationary projection grids for three generations of METEOSAT 1.14 Johannes Mueller, EUMETSAT

EarthCARE's Broadband Radiometer: Uncertainties associated with Cloudy Atmospheres 1.16 Rene Preusker, Freie Universität Berlin

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Programme-4.indd 50 06/09/2018 11:19 MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) 1 CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS GIIRS channel selection for 1-D Var assimilation 1.17 Jihoon Ryu, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

GOES-16 and GOES-S Direct Readout Status and Readiness 1.18 Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO

NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s (JPSS’s) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program – The Continued Success of the JPSS PGRR Risk Reduction Program in 1.19 its Seventh Year Bill Sjoberg, NOAA JPSS Program Office

An Early Operational Assessment of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper 1.20 Geoffrey Stano,ENSCO, Inc. / NASA SPoRT

IASI L1 Reprocessed Data of Metop-A from 2007 to 2017 1.21 Bertrand Theodore, EUMETSAT

Sub-millimeter developments in the RTTOV satellite simulator in preparation for the 1.22 future generation of satellite instruments. Emma Turner, Met Office

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Programme-4.indd 51 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION I MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) 2 PREPARING FOR MTG AND EPS-SG On the use of spaceborne active and passive microwave coincident observations: 2.1 perspectives for EPS-SG MWI and MWS global precipitation products Daniele Casella, Serco S.p.A.

Towards the assimilation of surface sensitive hyperspectral infrared radiances over land 2.2 Kristin Raykova, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

4 OBSERVATIONS FOR THE BALTIC BASIN Comparison of satellite based solar surface radiation estimates and CS model 4.1 performance in Finland Viivi Kallio, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

Application of empirical orthogonal functions reveals multiple modes of variations in the 4.2 Baltic Sea wave climate Fatemeh Najafzadeh , Tallinn University of Technology

Changes in satellite-based cloud properties in the Baltic Sea region during spring and 4.3 summer (1982 – 2015) Piia Post, University of Tartu, Institute of Physics

Intensive prolonged rains in Belarus and Baltic states 22-24 August 2017 4.4 Katsiaryna Sumak, Republican Center of Hydrometeorology

5 ARCTIC MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS Gap filling of CLARA-A2 SAL with classification methods 5.1 Emmihenna Jääskeläinen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

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Programme-4.indd 52 06/09/2018 11:19 MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) MONDAY 17 SEPT TO WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (AM) 7 MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS The sensitivity of SEVIRI Desert Dust RGB imagery to infrared dust optical properties and 7.1 background meteorology Jamie Banks, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

MSG RGB and ozone mapping as an index to cyclone intensity in tropical North Atlantic 7.2 Ocean Humberto Barbosa, Federal University of Alagoas

Regional Land Fluxes TCDR within the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring SAF: Surface 7.3 Radiation Budget Quentin Bourgeois, MeteoSwiss

Climatology of infrared radiances using IASI from 2007 to 2017 7.4 Claude Camy-Peyret, CNRS/IPSL Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

Climate Extreme Assessment using 12-years of reprocessed LST from LSA- SAF 7.5 Célia M. Gouveia, IPMA Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere / IDL – Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa

Long term validation and temporal stability of LST from LSA-SAF 7.6 Célia M. Gouveia, IPMA Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere / IDL Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Different methods of Blending Reference Sensors’ Data within the Global Space-based 7.7 Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT

Estimation of soil moisture using deep learning based on satellite data 7.8 Seon-Young Jeong, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration

Local and regional trends in snow cover from a 34-year time series of satellite 7.9 observations Thomas Lavergne, met.no Norwegian Meteorological Institute

AVHRR based blue, black and white sky albedo values for CLARA-A3 SAL 7.10 Terhikki Manninen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

Long term validation of the Copernicus Global Land Surface Temperature product 7.11 Joao Paulo Martins, Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera / Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa

Regional Land Fluxes TCDR within the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring SAF: 7.12 Evapotranspiration and Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes William Moutier, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Recent climatology of vegetation conditions in southern part of Ukraine based on 7.13 satellite-derived indices Inna Semenova, Odessa State Evironmental University

Integrated lake ice monitoring in Swiss lakes 7.14 Manu Tom, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zürich 53

Programme-4.indd 53 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION II WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT 1 CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS ATMS Radiometric Noise Characterization 1.23 Kent Anderson, Northrop Gumman

Geometric Performance Tool - Breakthrough INR Technology for MTG 1.24 Marc Bernau, Airbus Defence and Space

EUMETSAT Data Collection System - current status and future plans 1.25 Sean Burns, EUMETSAT

Improved Lunar Edge Response Function for On-Orbit MTF Calibration using Albedo 1.26 Lunar Flattening James Caron, Research Support Instruments

Validation of GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) data with a dense network of 150 1.27 gauges in Austria Ulrich Foelsche, University of Graz

Validation of INSAT-3D derived rainfall products with the rain gauge data 1.28 Suman Goyal, India Meteorological Department

The results of H-SAF liquid precipitation common validation in Poland 1.29 Rafał Iwański, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute

The diurnal and seasonal variation of COMS Infrared channels inter-calibration Minju Gu, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre/ Korea Meteorological 1.30 Association Presented by Eunkyu Kim, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre

GOES-S Post Launch Test Instrument Status and Results 1.31 Elizabeth Kline, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R

Investigating errors in low level AMV height assignment 1.32 Katie Lean, ECMWF

Vicarious calibration of low-light sensor based on reflected target and a light source 1.33 Shuo Ma, College of Meteorology and Oceanology, National University of Defence Technology

Showcases on Land Surface Analysis: Hands-on Applications of LSA SAF Products 1.34 Bostjan Muri, ARSO Slovenian Environment Agency

Usage of Satellite Data for Drought Management and Monitoring in Slovenia 1.35 Bostjan Muri, ARSO Slovenian Environment Agency

Onboard Radiometric Calibration References for the MetOp SG Infrared Sounder 1.36 Gaetan Perron, ABB Inc. Measurement & Analytics

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Programme-4.indd 54 06/09/2018 11:19 WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT 1 CURRENT AND FUTURE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND DATA ACCESS Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus Calibration Monitoring Facility 1.37 Gaetan Perron, ABB Inc. Measurement & Analytics

Geostationary Lightning Mapper On-orbit Sources of False Events 1.38 Marc Rafal, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Total Precipitable Water from METimage 1.39 Richard Siddans, STFC UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

Routine Validation of the STAR Multi-Satellite Product Processing System Framework 1.40 Algorithms William Straka Iii, SSEC/CIMSS, Universtity of Wisconsin-Madison

Calibration Validation Of GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) With the Aircraft 1.41 Based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) Joe Taylor, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Prelaunch and on-Orbit Calibration and Radiometric Performance of the Advanced 1.42 MERSI II on FengYun-3D Na Xu, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

Unpdated information and improved performance on FY-4 image navigation and 1.43 registration Lei Yang, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

On-Orbit Status Monitoring for Thermal Infrared Channels of FengYun Satellites Based 1.44 on Lunar Orbit Observations Yong Zhang, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center

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Programme-4.indd 55 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION II WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT

NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: 3 OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE EUMETSAT H-SAF Precipitation Products Generation System at COMet 3.1 Daniele Biron, Aeronautica Militare Italiana - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia

Analysis of deep moist convection triggering in northern Italy 3.2 Miria Celano, Arpae Emilia-Romagna Servizio IdroMeteoClima

Robustness of an automated CB classification in a changing environment 3.3 Paul Devalk, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Simulated MSG SEVIRI imagery from the HARMONIE-AROME high-resolution numerical 3.4 weather prediction model: applications in AEMET Angeles Hernandez, AEMET Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia

Version 2018 of the NWCSAF/PPS processing package 3.5 Sara Hörnquist, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Impact of AMSU-A data assimilation of upper-level sounding channels in the KIAPS DA 3.6 system Han-Byeol Jeong, KIAPS Korea Institute of Atmosphric Prediction Systems

The use of improved quality control in the SAFNWC AMV package to select AMV's that are less correlated. The impact of these AMV's is measured using the UK mesoscale 3.7 4DVAR data assimilation. Graeme Kelly, Met Office

Using of satellite imagery for the identifying and forecasting of convective phenomena 3.8 on the example of Ukraine. Oleksandra Khala, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center

A study on the bias correction of Himawari-8 CSR for the KMA NWP application 3.9 Heeyong Lee, NMSC/KMA National Meteorological Satellite Centre/ Korea Meteorological Association

Impact of SAPHIR data assimilation on humidity forecast over the mid-latitude regions 3.10 Sihye Lee, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS)

Deep convection characteristics occurred in the vicinity of the left exit jet streak region 3.11 on territory of Serbia Maja Rabrenovic, Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia

The EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility in Support to Operational Hydrology and 3.12 Water Management - H-SAF Project Status of the Precipitation Cluster Valentina Rosati, Italian Air Force Met Service - COMet

Assimilation of cloud-affected radiances in deep convection - a case study 3.13 Leonhard Scheck, Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research, LMU

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Programme-4.indd 56 06/09/2018 11:19 WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT

NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: 3 OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE Development of a new seamless prediction system for very short range convective-scale 3.14 forecasting at Deutscher Wetterdienst Kathrin Wapler, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

Temporal and spatial distribution of total lightning densities in thunderstorms in 3.15 conjunction with overshooting tops Kathrin Wapler, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

Comparison of thunderstorm characteristics as observed by SEVIRI and radar regarding 3.16 lightning and hail initiation Joel Zeder, MeteoSwiss

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Programme-4.indd 57 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION II WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT 6 ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND COMPOSITION MONITORING AND APPLICATIONS Effect of clouds on SO2 chemistry: a combination of satellite measurements and 6.1 trajectory modelling, and comparison with a GCM Christian Borger, MPI Max-Planck Institut für Chemie

Total column water vapour (TCWV) in the visible „blue“ spectral range: Validation and 6.2 first comparisons between GOME-2, OMI and TROPOMI Christian Borger, Satellite Remote Sensing Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Atmospheric Lee waves over the Eastern Mediterranean Basin as seen by the AIRWAVE 6.3 Total Column Water Vapor and the WRF model Elisa Castelli, CNR/ISAC Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima

Detection of SO2 from Himawari-8 Meteorological Satellite based on the Deep Neural 6.4 Network Dae Sung Choi, Pusan National University

Validation and quality assurance of gome-2A and gome-2B ozone profiles and tropospheric ozone column products in an operational context, using balloon sounding 6.5 data Andy Delcloo, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Assimilation of IASI L1C radiances in a chemical transport model 6.6 Emanuele Emili, Cerfacs

The research of Polarization on UV Atmospheric Spectral Radiation 6.7 Lin Guan-yu, CIOMP

Physical Properties of Mid-Level Clouds Based on CloudSat/CALIPSO Data over Land 6.8 and Sea Juan Huo, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Space borne and ground based atmospheric composition measurements over Sodankylä, 6.9 Finland Rigel Kivi, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

AC-SAF new surface product: Sun-Induced Fluorescence of Terrestrial Ecosystem 6.10 Retrieval (SIFTER) Maurits Kooreman, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

10-year surface UV data record from GOME-2/Metop 6.11 Jukka Kujanpää, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

The S5P surface UV product 6.12 Jukka Kujanpää, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

Total ozone amount monitoring over Poland using OMPS/SNPP data 6.13 Bozena Lapeta, Institute of Meteorology and Water Mangement - National Research Institute

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Programme-4.indd 58 06/09/2018 11:19 WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT

NOWCASTING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: 6 OBSERVATIONAL INPUT AND THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE A fitting procedure for Azimuth and Elevation of Low Earth Orbit Satellite applied to data 6.14 processing of EPS-SG 3MI Rasmus Lindstrot, EUMETSAT

SEVIRI nowcasting observations insertion in the FALL3D model to improve volcanic ash 6.15 cloud evolution forecastings Luca Merucci, Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia

An overview of the S5P/TROPOMI level 2 file format definition and its extension to S4 6.16 and S5 Mattia Pedergnana, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Using CHIMERE to reduce the NO2 and H2CO horizontal representativeness errors 6.17 between GOME-2 and MAX-DOAS data Gaia Pinardi, IASB-BIRA Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Continuing validation of stratospheric ozone profiles from the EUMETSAT Atmospheric 6.18 Composition SAF. Part A: GOME-2 data record in the upper stratosphere Wolfgang Steinbrecht, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

Continuing validation of stratospheric ozone profiles from the EUMETSAT Atmospheric 6.19 Composition SAF. Part B: Pre-operational IASI ozone profiles in the upper stratosphere Wolfgang Steinbrecht, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

Satellite-based analysis of surface-level O3-NOx-VOC sensitivity and application of 6.20 GOME-2 NO2 photolysis product Anu-maija Sundström, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute

Status of Metop/GOME-2 vertical ozone profiles 6.21 Olaf Tuinder, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Total and tropospheric ozone columns from Sentinel-5P 6.22 Pieter Valks, DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Comparison of OMPS/JPSS-1 Measurements with OMPS/SNPP and Model Simulations 6.23 Xiaozhen Xiong, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Ozone vertical profiles retrieval from forward limb spectrometer in TianGong-2 space 6.24 laboratory Zong Xuemei, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Programme-4.indd 59 06/09/2018 11:19 POSTER SESSION II WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT 7 MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS Towards Sea Ice Climate Data Records in C3S 7.15 Signe Aaboe, met.no Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Meteosat observations of diurnal variation of cloud fractional cover 7.16 Jędrzej S. Bojanowski, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography

Integration of ground-based and remote-sensing observations for monitoring daily 7.17 global solar radiation Alexandru Dumitrescu, National Meteorological Administration of Romania

Sentinel-3B SLSTR Early On-Orbit Calibration and Characterisation Results 7.18 Mireya Etxaluze , STFC UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

Climate Data Records and user service of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on 7.19 Climate Monitoring Karsten Fennig, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst

GNSS-R ocean properties by Delay Doppler Map stare processing 7.20 Giuseppe Grieco, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / EUMETSAT

Monitoring climate and the oceans in Tanzania 7.21 Kekilia Kabalimu, Ministry Of Natural Resources And Tourism,tanzania Forest Services

Uncertainty of vertical profile of cloud amount over Poland based on CloudSat-CALIPSO 7.22 Andrzej Kotarba, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences

Sea Surface Temperatures from JAXA’s new satellite: Shikisai 7.23 Yukio Kurihara, JAXA

Estimating trend uncertainties of Global Mean Sea level evolution over the 25-year 7.24 altimetry era Marine Lievin, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

DUACS: Toward High Resolution Sea Level Products 7.25 Marine Lievin, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

Wind Relaxations at West Iberia Assessed from Scatterometers 7.26 Isabel Monteiro, IPMA - Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere

Independent validation of Sentinel 3A SLSTR sea surface temperature products 7.27 Anne Ocarroll, EUMETSAT

Copernicus Sentinel-3 Sea Surface Temperature: product status, evolutions and projects 7.28 Anne Ocarroll, EUMETSAT

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Programme-4.indd 60 06/09/2018 11:19 WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT WEDNESDAY 19 SEPT (PM) TO FRIDAY 21 SEPT 7 MONITORING CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS Towards Bayesian retrievals using neural networks: Estimating cloud top pressure from 7.29 MODIS observations Simon Pfreundschuh, Chalmers University of Technology

Validation of the SST-dependent Ku-band geophysical model function for SCATSAT-1 7.30 scatterometer Marcos Portabella, Institut de Ciències del Mar – CSIC

Performance assessment of Microwave Radiometers aboard altmetry mission 7.31 Matthias Raynal, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

Sentinel-3 Range and Datation Calibration with Crete Transponder 7.32 Mathias Raynal, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

Sea Surface Temperature retrieval method comparison 7.33 Stéphane Saux Picart, Météo-France

Cloud Properties of CERES-MODIS Edition 4 and CERES-VIIRS Edition 1 7.34 Sunny Sun-Mack, SSAI Science Systems and Applications Inc.

Quantitative and qualitative indicators of algal and nonalgal suspended particles in the 7.35 Chesapeake Bay derived from VIIRS data Guangming Zheng, NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research / GST, Inc.

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Programme-4.indd 61 06/09/2018 11:19 NETWORKING EVENTS

Sunday 16 September

18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drink, Swissôtel, conference venue Early registration will take place on Sunday 16 September as from 16:00 in the lobby of the Swissôtel and is followed by a Welcome Drink from 18:00 -19:30.

Monday 17 September

18:30 - 21:30 Icebreaker, Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, Narva maantee 95, 10127 Tallinn, Estonia Buses will depart from Swissôtel at 18:00 and take partici- pants directly to the Icebreaker venue. The return transfer will be made at 21:30 to the Swissôtel from where participants can walk on to their hotels. With the contribution of:

Tuesday 18 September

19:00 - 20:00 Guided Tour (in English) of the historic town centre of Tallinn

The tour starts at 19:00 and will last approx. 2 hours. The tour has to be booked in advance, please contact the registration desk.

With the contribution of:

Wednesday 19 September

19:30 - 23:00 Conference Dinner, Seaplane Harbour (Estonian Maritime Museum) Vesilennuki 6, 10415 Tallinn, Estonia

Buses will depart from Swissôtel at 19:00 and take partici- pants directly to the dinner venue. The return transfer will be made at 23:00 to the Swissôtel from where participants can walk on to their hotels.

With the contribution of:

Programme-4.indd 62 06/09/2018 11:19 CONFERENCE SPONSORS

EUMETSAT WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS:

Programme-4.indd 63 06/09/2018 11:19 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• Bojan Bojkov, EUMETSAT • Derek Peddle, University of Lethbridge • Mitch Goldberg, NOAA • Hervé Roquet, Météo-France • Jochen Grandell, EUMETSAT • Joachim Saalmueller, EUMETSAT • Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT • Joerg Schulz, EUMETSAT • Kenneth Holmlund, EUMETSAT • Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO • Tiit Kutser, University of Tartu • Johanna Tamminen, FMI • Rasmus Lindstrot, EUMETSAT • Kathrin Wapler, DWD • Stefanie Linow, EUMETSAT

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